Notre Dame with 13.6 mn visitors tops Eiffel Tower

Nearly nine million went to the Louvre and the numbers at one of the world8217;s largest museums increased 5.6 per cent year-on-year,while the Eiffel Tower got 7.1 million visitors,also a 5.6 per cent increase.

The Pompidou Centre,a museum designed in the style of high-tech architecture by famed Italian architect Renzo Piano,was visited by 3.6 million people.

The Musee d8217;Orsay,housing an impressive collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings in a converted railway station,attracted 3.1 million.

8220;Visiting museums and monuments constitutes the main motivation for visiting Paris 65 per cent,8221; said the office in a statement.

8220;With 72.6 million visitors,the numbers going to the 64 Parisian cultural sites surveyed increased by more than 2.5 per cent8221; year-on-year,it said.

8220;Americans and Britons comprised the largest number of visitors8221; to museums,it said,stressing that the numbers of Brazilians,Russians and Chinese had risen substantially.